While I do share some of your general thoughts, I bought slotted rotors for a very specific reason that you may be overlooking: water. My daily is not a race car (outback) but it is great at doing commuting. One issue in my area is lots and lots of rain and little to zero water runoff. This means there is standing…

That EE guy is getting on my nerves so bad i refuse to watch his stuff anymore.
Somehow he manages to combine several small annoyances into something much worse than the sum of it’s parts

I’ve heard good things about those as well. I have a Stoptech BBK so like the brand. The rear 4 pots use Porsche OEM pads oddly enough, but I’m not sure what are on the front.  I do know that I had to swap to a more streetable pad after a year as the standard pads didn’t heat up enough on my short summer drives and…

always do the slide pins on a nice cool and dry saturday in spring or fall every year, and save yourself a lot of grief and money.

This is really an easy one. I distributed aftermarket brake pads in the past and can say with certainty that for a street driven (non-tracked) car the OEM brake pads are always the best choice. There is more engineering put into the OEM pad materials than most people would realize. Never ever buy the cheap auto parts…

Haha, I have a friend who swears by Powerstop, kept trying to convince me to put them on my car.  I politely declined and went with EBC RedStuff and OEM rotors.

I worry less about how long pads last and more about how often I need to be tearing down my calipers to lube the slide pins. Every time I’ve had to do pads the pins have been almost seized. I always get a pin and boot kit when I get pads. Occasionally I’ve needed to get a caliper because I wasn’t able to get a seized…

Don’t ever go cheap on tires or brakes, ever.  

Something I’ve come to notice lately, just like tires, the longest lasting ones aren’t necessarily the best ones. Good brakes also have good bite in the operating ranges they will be used. I had a set of street brakes (not cheapos) on my car that touted long life and clean wheels, but it turned out they offered almost…

I’m pretty sure Tommy Callahan did the best explanation of cheap vs expensive brake pads ever

I feel like warp speed is best used as a subjective expression for the sensation you have in any given car at any given speed. Indicated 92 mph in a 4cyl Wrangler with plastic windows, questionable alignment and 4 unbalanced wheels on the Hardy Toll road in the late 90s was Warp 11. I was extremely uncomfortable at…

See!  Should have left the splitter guards on!

Would have been fine if they had left the front splitter guards on!

See, if they had the splitter guards on it would have protected the front end.

Challenger? Looks more like a ram

ok boomer

Dude, mixed tapes. Especially from the radio. Burning CDs wasn’t an (affordable) thing until this 38 year-old was a freshman in college, let alone the true Gen-Xers that had to figure out creative ways to make mixed tapes.

The cassette adapter was amazing, but depending on your phone’s charging port to aux port proximity, you couldn’t really charge and listen at the same time without getting all that feedback. It’s the only reason that bluetooth is superior to aux cables. That, and some phone cases make getting to the ports really…

ah, ah, ah

“One wild man actually went out of his way to count them.”